Returning to the mindset of a student after around 14 years is… strange. I would say it’s difficult, but I’ve been casually studying various things through online courses for at least the last 8 or 9 years, so studying and classwork have not become completely foreign to me. It’s just that taking a course for college credit again for the first time in over a decade feels a tad… odd.
Working with students (as coworkers) on a daily basis gives me an ephemeral hand in the world of higher education, but it is, of course, not the same. At all.